Statement from Miami-Dade County Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez Regarding Reports of Potential Financial Ties Between a Business and the Cuban Regime

I am deeply concerned by reports indicating that a company with local ties may be engaging in financial arrangements that involve or benefit the Cuban regime. Any activity that could place money, operational control, or financial leverage in the hands of a communist dictatorship that systematically oppresses its people and aligns itself with hostile regimes such as Venezuela, Iran, and Russia must be subject to the highest level of scrutiny.

Remittances are meant to support families and provide humanitarian relief, not to strengthen or legitimize an authoritarian government or its state controlled financial apparatus. United States law is clear that commercial and financial activity involving Cuba is heavily restricted and permitted only under narrow and explicit federal authorization. Foreign approval or participation does not override those legal obligations.

For these reasons, I respectfully urge the appropriate federal authorities to conduct a thorough review of this matter, ensure full compliance with United States sanctions and regulations, and take any action necessary to prevent U.S. based entities from contributing, directly or indirectly, to the financing or empowerment of an oppressive regime.

God Bless Miami-Dade County, and God Bless the United States of America.

Dariel Fernandez

Tax Collector, Miami-Dade County